Kalaivanan Nagarajan

About

ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH DETAILS
2022-onwards: Reader, Department of Chemical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

2017-2022: Post-doctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Nanostructures, University of Strasbourg, France.
Guide: Prof. Thomas W. Ebbesen (Kavli laureate 2014)

2011-2017: PhD in Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research-Thiruvananthapuram (IISER-TVM), Kerala, India.
Guide: Prof. Mahesh Hariharan

2009-2011: Research Executive in Food Science at Hindustan Unilever Research Centre, Hindustan Unilever Ltd., Bangalore, India.

2007-2009: M.Sc. in Applied Chemistry, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. (Gold medal, University first rank).

2003-2006: B.Sc. in Chemistry, Gobi Arts and Science College, Gobichettipalayam, Tamil Nadu, India. (College third rank).

RESEARCH AREA OF SPECIALISATION

o Light-matter strong coupling.
o Surface plasmon.
o Polaritonic chemistry for chemical reactions.
o Vibrational strong coupling.
o Molecular and transient spectroscopy.
o Fluorescence and Phosphorescence

Employment

• Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Reader
  2022 - Present
• University of Strasbourg Post Doctoral Fellow
  2017 - 2022

Education

• Indian Institute of Science Education Research Thiruvananthapuram Ph. D.
  2011 - 2017

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (29)

• Engineering Material Properties through Hybrid Light–Matter States
  ACS Applied Optical Materials 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acsaom.5c00646
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• Molecular Mode Selective Diels–Alder Cycloreversion under Vibrational Strong Coupling
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6c00576
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• Altering Glass Transition in Polymer Films through Vibrational Strong Coupling
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c02305
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• Exploring superconductivity under strong coupling with the vacuum electromagnetic field
  The Journal of Chemical Physics 2025 DOI: 10.1063/5.0231202
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• Impacting Non‐Covalent Interactions through Vibrational Strong Coupling
  ChemPlusChem 2025 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202400591
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• Manipulating the Self-Assembly of Phenyleneethynylenes under Vibrational Strong Coupling
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2022 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03893
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• Chemistry under Vibrational Strong Coupling
  Journal of the American Chemical Society 2021 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c07420
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• Supramolecular Assembly of Conjugated Polymers under Vibrational Strong Coupling
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2021 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202105840
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• Large Enhancement of Ferromagnetism under a Collective Strong Coupling of YBCO Nanoparticles
  Nano Letters 2021 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00973
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• Large optical nonlinearity enhancement under electronic strong coupling
  Nature Communications 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21739-7
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